Abstract
This article is aimed at revealing the specifics of the professional choice made by students-future teachers. The increased interest in recent years of young people in studying pedagogical specialties provoked our research attention towards differentiating the factors influencing their professional choices. This article presents the results of a study conducted with students majoring in "Primary school pedagogy with a foreign language" who study at the Faculty of Education at Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. The results of the study indicate that in their professional choices, students are influenced by a wide range of social and personal factors. The most important social factors are: proximity of the university to the place where the student resides, the high social assessment of the quality of education at the university/faculty, and the prestige of the teaching profession in society. Among the personal factors for choosing the profession of pedagogue, students rank in leading positions their desire to work with children and their love for the teaching profession, formed under the influence of the high professionalism of their good teachers.
Highlights
In retrospect of time, the teaching profession is characterized by its long traditions
Do young people make sense of these valuable characteristics that make the analyticity teaching profession attractive to them? Is their professional choice characterized by deep analyticity, or is it made under the influence of random factors? This article attempts to adequately answer these, important for the modern society, questions
While at the beginning of the 20th century the teaching profession was practiced mainly by men, in the 21st century being a teacher is a professional choice mainly made by women
Summary
The teaching profession is characterized by its long traditions. In elementary form, from the very beginning of rational human existence one can speak of the realization of training without it being based on professional grounds. In his scientific publications Iskrev points out that phylogenetically the profession came out as a result of the division of labor (Iskrev, 2000). People started to specialize in certain areas. This can be seen as a prerequisite for the later emergence of the different professions. Over the centuries the teaching profession has evolved and improved so as to nowadays become necessary for the prosperity of modern society. Do young people make sense of these valuable characteristics that make the analyticity teaching profession attractive to them? Is their professional choice characterized by deep analyticity, or is it made under the influence of random factors? This article attempts to adequately answer these, important for the modern society, questions
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